Prayer is a central part of what we do at Anglican Overseas Aid.
Throughout the whole of Scripture we see the suffering heart of God for the poor and oppressed. Many of us have heard that there are over 2,000 verses in the Bible that relate to poverty. It ...

Marsden Vuvu looks up from behind his desk and welcomes us with a huge smile, before wheeling himself out to warmly shake our hands.
Marsden has recently been appointed as a sales agent for our solar lights project in this part of northern Vanuatu. We have ...

The link is a man called Holland Sikou. In his early 20s, Holland played the world game for his country, but since 2011, he has been the Solar Co-ordinator for the Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) in Solomon Islands.
With our support, ACOM provides solar...

During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, which led to East Pakistan becoming the independent state of Bangladesh, an estimated 10 million refugees fled from the conflict zone over the border into India. Most went to the nearest city – Calcutta, where they...

With the Himalayas offering a back-drop of massive solidity and magnificent strength, it is hard to imagine that they could be fragile and susceptible to change and movement. Yet that is what happened in April and May of 2015, when two massive earthquakes lite...

Grandma Martha’s broad smile and bouncy demeanour are a testament to her triumph over the challenges that life has thrown at her.
In 2001 this dynamic Kenyan grandmother was left to raise her young grandsons after her son died of AIDS – a major challenge fo...

The Afar region of Ethiopia is one of the toughest places in the world to live. It has some of the hottest inhabited places on Earth – some areas exceed 50 degrees Celsius in the hot season.
The Afar people, who are primarily Islamic, live a traditional sem...

We are thankful to God that the new Turnbull Government includes a Minister for International Development. The Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Steven Ciobo, has been promoted to the new position of Minister for International Development and the Pa...

Please pray for the ongoing recovery in Nepal following the two massive earthquakes that hit the country in April and May 2015.
While the initial relief work from the earthquakes is now complete, and the world's media has moved on, it is now that the ongoin...

Anglican Overseas Aid is fully accredited with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which makes us a trusted recipient of funds from the Australian Government’s aid budget.

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